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How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright is a short, strategy-focused work of political sociology that asks a practical question: if capitalism produces both prosperity and deep inequality, what are realistic ways to build something better? Published near the end of Wrights life, the book condenses decades of his work on class analysis, social transformation, and real utopias into an accessible argument for democratic socialism. It is not a manifesto for abstract opposition alone. Instead, it examines capitalism as a system that organizes economic life through private ownership and market power, then evaluates why that system falls short on equality, democracy, and solidarity. Wright also shifts attention from diagnosis to agency, identifying multiple pathways for anti-capitalist change, from public expansion to grassroots resistance and cooperative alternatives. The result is a concise but ambitious guide for readers who want a serious discussion of socialist strategy rather than slogans or nostalgia.